Massachusetts · Private foundation
Messinger Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $213k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 68
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $727k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Messinger Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $196k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $303k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $205k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $321k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $199k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $290k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union for Reform Judaism | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Harvey Mudd College | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New York University | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Temple Judea | $37,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Berkshire Health Systems Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 39% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Berkshire United Way Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 108 recipients with no EIN on record ($881k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Messinger Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Messinger Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Messinger Family Foundation Inc give?
- Messinger Family Foundation Inc reported 58 grants totaling $213,006 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 68 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Messinger Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (17%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Messinger Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Union for Reform Judaism ($100k), Harvey Mudd College ($75k), University of Rochester ($55k).
- Does Messinger Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Messinger Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Messinger Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc, Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust.
- Where is Messinger Family Foundation Inc based?
- Messinger Family Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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